The Gnome community recently released version 2.24 of its Desktop Environment. Gnome is a comprehensive, easy-to-use open source desktop environment for operating systems belonging to the Unix family, such as GNU/Linux and BSD. The name is short for GNU Network Object Model Environment. Gnome consists of a desktop environment and a development platform, which can be used to create other applications that can be integrated into the desktop environment. It is similar to KDE in that regard. The extended release notes for this version can be found on this page are found, this is a brief summary of them:
What’s New For Users
- Stay in Touch
- Track Your Time Better
- Ekiga 3.0
- File Management
- Do More With Deskbar
- New Screen Resolution Controls
- New Sound Theme Support
- Better Digital TV
- Extra Pretty
What’s New In Accessibility
- Better Keyboard Navigation
- Improved Mouse Accessibility
- Better Screen Reading
What’s New For Developers
- Preparing for GLib/GTK+ 3.0
- GLib 2.18
- GTK+ 2.14
- Instant Messaging Libraries
- desk bar
What’s New In Mobile
GNOME 2.24 is the first release of the GNOME Mobile development platform. GNOME Mobile brings standard desktop components together to provide a core platform on which distributors and handheld manufacturers can build rich programming environments.
The GNOME Mobile platform is the technological heart of numerous Linux-based mobile device platforms including Maemo, the ACCESS Linux Platform, the LiMo reference platform, Ubuntu Mobile, Moblin and Poky.
Internationalization
Thanks to members of the worldwide GNOME Translation Project, GNOME 2.24 offers support for 45 languages with at least 80 percent of strings translated, including the user and administration manuals for many languages.[break]
| Version number | 2.24 |
| Release status | Final |
| Operating systems | Linux, BSD, Solaris, UNIX |
| Website | gnome |
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| License type | GPL |